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Neil Cornwell

Neil Cornwell is Professor Emeritus (since 2007) of
Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol,
UK, where he had been working from 1987. A graduate of SSEES,
University of London, he previously taught at the (then) New
University of Ulster, Coleraine (1972-3), and lectured at Queen's
University, Belfast, from 1973 to 1987.

He has published comparative studies on the Fantastic
(Harvester, 1990) and the Absurd (Manchester UP, 2006), plus
James Joyce and the Russians (Macmillan, 1992), and books
on Vladimir Odoevsky (1986 and 1998), Pasternak (1986), Pushkin
(1993), and Nabokov (1999).

He is the editor of the Reference Guide to Russian
Literature (1998) and The Routledge Companion to Russian
Literature (2001). His other edited books include collections
of essays on Daniil Kharms, the Russian Gothic-Fantastic, and the
Society Tale in Russian literature (19th-century). A contributor of
articles to a range of books and journals, he is also co-editor of
a 'New Casebook' on Henry James (1998), as well as being the
translator of collections of stories by Kharms and Odoevsky, plus
Mayakovsky's travel memoir My Discovery of America
(Hesperus, 2005).

He has been editing and writing for The Literary Encyclopedia
(with responsibility for Russian literature, plus Vladimir Nabokov
and Henry James) since 2002.

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